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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1949
Page
5
A Denver INS survey finds seven of ten motorists ready to fight at a horn beep with 14 of 20 saying they would bolt from cars for a street brawl. A mail carrier drew a steel rod after a street challenge, while many drivers remain calm despite horns and shouts though parking disputes spark tension.
Jack Mills the first blind veteran to complete a four year California college course finishes Redlands University in three years. He navigated campus without his guide dog and joined a fraternity serving as Inter Fraternity Council president. An Eagle scout Mills learned to run by bell cue and aided Redlands area council as adviser while attaining top grades and passing chemistry and physics.
The column urges renting options for veterans with families living in temporary quarters and facing denial due to children. It requests landlords to contact Commander Charles Loflin, AS well as notices about dividends, renewals, and open civil service positions for veterans. It also covers Legion events, mayoral praise for Bill Bailey, and a Babe Ruth memorial moment.
A Taiyuan dispatch notes large numbers of civilian veterans returning home to resume spring planting after the capture of Nort China fortifications. The Chinese Communist radio in Peiping, monitored in Tokyo, paints Red soldiers as common folks to boost morale.
Manuscripts once sold for 50 cents a page are on display at the Huntington Library in San Marino. The collection includes Edgar Allan Poe’s famed poem Annabel Lee among its works.
The Malay Vegetarian Society in Singapore urges controls on wild animal exports after learning many exported monkeys died on ships. They warn the one horned rhinoceros is extinct due to hunting and ask the Singapore and Malaya Federation governments to audit imports and exports and consider stricter or total bans. Two unannounced exporters voted in support, removing the word high from mortality rate in the resolution.
The All Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge reports membership near 40,000, tripling since 1948. It organized roughly 1,000 lectures monthly in 1947, rose to 7,000 in 1948, and reached about 20,900 lectures per month in 1949.
Louis German of Kansas City saved 34.90 by choosing to drink coffee in a restaurant. While driving he crashed into two parked cars and paid 35 in police court in Salem Oregon.
United Air Lines distributes a 50 question questionnaire to passengers to gauge likes and dislikes about service and relation. The survey covers major aspects of passenger experience and aims to collect opinions for service improvement.
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